Win 7 or upgrade to Win 10

[Kenny.h]

I’m upgrading my system to

Asrock Z370 Extreme 4

Intel I7 8700K

MSI GTX 1080 Armor 8G OC

At the moment I’m running Win7 pro and I like it but would I get any benefits performance wise by upgrading to Win10?

 

[samcool55]

Will performance improve? Yes.

Will you notice it? Nope, difference isn't big enough.

It's possible to measure it, but that's it. I think it's like 2-3%?

[SupaKomputa]

You won't have Direct X 12 on win 7.

PC hardware is already too fast to be slowed down by the OS.

So the difference won't be noticable unless you're still on HDD boot disk.

I see no reason why you still on win 7, unless you want to keep certain legacy apps / hardware.

[Chaftalie]

Windows 7 officialy won't support the 8700K. it will be functioning but you will get an popup thats nearly as big as your screen saying that your CPU is not supported.

 

Some features of the 8700K won't function with win7 so there can be programs where you can get a reall big boost compared to win7.

(4k video encoding won't be hardware accelerated, ...)

[SolarNova]

Stick with W7.

 

You wont have DX12 supports but u also wont have to deal with the ,imo, horrbile changes W10 has.

 

Also wont have nearly as much data gathering, and will retian more control over what your OS does.

 

You can get W10 to more or less act like W7, both in looks and functionality but its a real hassle. Not worth it imo.

 

You wont see any performance gains, ull probably see a faster boot up, but thats about it.

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Chaftalie said:

Windows 7 officialy won't support the 8700K. it will be functioning but you will get an popup thats nearly as big as your screen saying that your CPU is not supported.

While that's true, there are some harmuful utilities to disable this, there is an utility called wufuc which will let you use Win7 unlocking all the limitations added by microsoft for new hardware
 

Windows 7 is currently at a security mainteance mode, meaning that you won't get any more features out of it except for security updates, in case you do care about DX12 games you should consider Windows 10, unless you prefer using DX11 and/or Vulkan you could decide to keep Windows 7 until microsoft will no longer support security updates for it, you definitely need to update since then

There are no noticeable performance difference between Win 7 and 10, while the 10 is less RAM intensive (compresses ram at runtime) it has more I/O activity due to automatic and forced windows updates and telemetry applications in the background when the PC is idle

[Delicieuxz]

11 hours ago, Chaftalie said:

Windows 7 officialy won't support the 8700K. it will be functioning but you will get an popup thats nearly as big as your screen saying that your CPU is not supported.

 

Some features of the 8700K won't function with win7 so there can be programs where you can get a reall big boost compared to win7.

(4k video encoding won't be hardware accelerated, ...)

Does it give a popup? I've only seen it said that there will be a message if a person tried to run Windows Update that the CPU isn't supported.

 

That artificial restriction on Windows Update can be removed with this patch, though: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

[Kenny.h]

Thx for the info 

I’m gonna stick with my Win7 for now

and wil update to Win10 when I upgrade from my sata ssd to M.2